Festivals provide a cross-section of what’s tickling artists’ ivories at that specific juncture in time.

While none of the theater-makers in this year’s Under the Radar Festival collaborated on their productions, the unintentional — but still meaningful! — resonances between them snapshot the intersections of what artists are interested in exploring right now, and how.

A taste of three such overlaps across this year’s festival:

Titles that advertise their productions as retellings of classic texts, only to dovetail completely from the original scripts in wildly — I repeat: wildly — unexpected ways: Hamlet | Toilet ; William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal ; Titanic Depression ; Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” in our own words.

Shows with jokes mocking Timothée Chalamet: Titanic Depression ; Rose: You Are Who You Eat ; Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (technically not Under the Radar, but the Exponential Festival is similar enough).

Thespians live on stage acting off recorded versions of themselves on a screen: Titanic Depression and The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy.